Epic exoplanet 57 EP

HD 23596 b

RA 57.0019° · Dec 40.5307° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges

57 pts · Epic

Epic 68 pts → Anomaly

In the habitable zone +30
Denser than iron +18
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 57

11 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
In the habitable zone · +30
Gas giant · +4
Denser than iron · +18

Trivia

What makes it special

Goldilocks zone. Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist.
Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.

Could we get there?

Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 264.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 1696 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 170 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1856.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 339 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts about 4.2 Earth years.

By the numbers

Size. About 12.4× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 1907 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 3787× Earth's mass — about 11.9 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 24.6× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Denser than solid iron.
Temperature. A frigid -54°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Haute-Provence Observatory using the radial velocity method.

Properties

density gcc: 10.9
discovery facility: Haute-Provence Observatory
discovery method: Radial Velocity
dist ly: 169.607
eccentricity: 0.282
eq temp k: 219.49
habitable zone: yes
insolation: 0.3957
mass earth: 3786.6076
name: HD 23596 b
orbital period days: 1535.1191
radius earth: 12.4
sys num planets: 1

About HD 23596 b

HD 23596 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 169.6 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 219 K, spans roughly 12.4 Earth radii and weighs about 3,786.61 Earth masses.

Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 23596 b is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why HD 23596 b is an epic exoplanet

HD 23596 b scores 57 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, In the habitable zone, Gas giant and Denser than iron — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.